Dear NXXXXX,
I am a senior citizen living in Port Charlotte Florida; in this state for 35 years full-time.
I have been frequenting our local F M Hospital between surgeries and testing MRIs, etc. for decades.
While messaging with one of the local morning TV anchors, I had asked why we in Charlotte County no longer get daily data on our cases and deaths related to COVID and its variant?
She had admitted that she too has been having difficulty getting that information, but not from the lack of trying!
She suggested that I try and so I did.
I enjoy the hunt for information and also finding out why it has been so difficult to attain on occasion... considering that Lee and Collier Counties post their data about COVID cases and deaths nightly!
So I called F M Hospital and after quite a lot of shuffling around from department to department CXXXX in the administration there called me. And she told me that since they are a private hospital they give all their data to the state health department where I should be able to access it. As we had before, daily! All hospitals in Charlotte County are private apparently, who knew.
So I called the state health dept. and they transferred me to your/their legal department which happens to be, as you know, also public records.
DXXXXX, there was extremely helpful and told me the person I should speak with will be available in about half an hour, and she gave me their direct phone number to call back. (XXX-XXX-XXXX) Which I did...
KXXXXX was the woman who I spoke to and she must have been having a bad day because she insisted that public records were NOT publicly available and she dropped my call after losing it!!!
I am nothing if not persistent, so I called back and got the nice one, DXXXXX, and she said that I should speak with KXXXXX's supervisor and so she put TX XXXX, on the line. Again, he is also a very nice patient person who apologized, and gave me your info saying you would be able to help me...!
I sure hope you are not going to tell me that all you have is weekly reports when I have been told by the hospital that the data comes into you daily!
NXXXXX, I am counting on you to help me find out why this is such a BIG SECRET TOO?
Daily reports are a necessary commodity in dealing with this PANDEMIC. The public should be in the know! Secrets, as you know, create mistrust.
I am thanking you in advance for the help I know you will give to me about those daily numbers that we all should know...
Sincerely,
Tilda Kruegel
Port Charlotte FL,
Ph# xxx-xxx-xxxx
I am currently waiting for a response it was emailed last night.
Moving on... deciding on where to put the new pond!
Below is what you will see looking out the sunroom door and window above one of our two matching loveseats in that room. And to me seeing the pond again even though absolutely tiny in comparison to its previous incarnation is relaxing while looking up from perhaps a good read? The last picture is looking at the canal, which was previously hidden due to the overgrowth in the pond garden and too many clusters of trees! Remember this is all under construction.
Hubby's daily choices appear to come down to two things... to work on the garden or to mow the lawn. Since I just say to him as long as our lawn is shorter than the two lawns on either side of our property, I believe that the garden should take priority! For the fish's sake if nothing else...! Even though they are in a holding tank with the new bubbling compressor, those mosquito fish need to be in their new home as soon as possible, not to mention those waterlilies!
Hubby is pictured below leveling the new mini pond!
I will be going into the pool again, I know two days in a row, so unlike me! But boy do I need it!
And so we must go, for now.
Please be smart, as well as safe.
Have a very pleasant day.
Count those blessings, and we will too!
Next time, please be here or be square; ya hear!
Aussie, say good day!
I am called Aussie because my Mom asked a sixteen-year-old girl, who had been looking at me in the crate at the adoption site that day what she thought I should be named. And without hesitation, the teenager had said Aussie! She was just looking, by the way, so my Mom did not steal me from her.
We never did find out the girl's name, and Mom liked the name Aussie too. We have since found out that it is a very common name, but it is still just right for me! My parents think that I am uncommon though, some might say even unique! I do like that.
I am an Australian Shepherd. And here is an interesting factoid about me, I was supposed to be a miniature Australian Shepherd, but as you might know, I AM NOT! Although I am now three years old, so I am the baby, though I tip the scales at around seventy pounds, HA! I must admit, a very big one!
I was three months old when Mommy and Daddy adopted me. I had been taken out of a hoarder's home in the Carolinas with my litter.
Below is my new PIC, which had been taken on the birthday that I share with my Dad, but Dad is much, much older than me!!! I was the first to be adopted, February 16, 2018, on his brother's birthday.
No tail/tale publishing, circa 2018.
Get it? I was born without a tail, preferable for all Australian Shepherds; only one out of five are born that way!
Hello, I am Bella in the picture above, a Maltese Yorkie, a Morkie, and I might be five years old. I am the middle child, so I am what you would expect, with all those idiosyncrasies that go along with all that! Being the only girl has its rewards, as well as difficulties... We are all rescues, so no one knows for sure our ages. I was turned in by my previous family, stating that I was misbehaving with their elderly dog, they had said I was driving him crazy! I was the second to be adopted on 8/18/18, on clear out the shelters' day!Oh, by the way, my record's called me Belle, and so for no known reason, Mom decided I was more of a Bella; beautiful either way!
Please don't forget me, I am Chance, pictured above, a Bichon Frise! I am six years old, so they think, and the eldest, and I like getting up early with Mom and Aussie. Bella sleeps in with Dad, till after seven most days, even later! I enjoy a good tug-a-war on the ropes that Dad had twisted for Aussie and me, and sometimes even Bella plays too! I was the last to be adopted, on January 23, 2020.
I was wandering the neighborhood for days and then saw Aussie and Bella in their living-room window, so I hung out there... The Animal Welfare League checked me out and kept me for sixteen days until I was allowed to be adopted. Good evening?
The animal control lady was called and came out to see if I had a chip I.D. with her machine, and Dad told her that he wanted to name me Chance. His reason being, that if no one claimed me, I want to give him a second chance! So that is how I got the name Chance!
Easy as Aussie, Bella, Chance, now you got it!
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